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HTML5 is a draft specification for the next major iteration of HTML. It represents a break from its predecessors, HTML4 and XHTML. Some elements have been removed and it is no longer based on SGML, an older standard for document markup. HTML5 also has more allowances for incorrect synt...Dec. 15, 2011 03:00 PM EST Reads: 4,456
Developing your Software as a Service (SaaS) takes you away from the dark ages of programming and into the new age in which copyright protection, DMA, and pirating don’t exist. In the current age of computing, people don’t expect to pay for software but instead prefer to pay for the su...
This excerpt describes fundamental terms and concepts associated with service-oriented computing, including those related to service-oriented architecture, service-orientation, and cloud computing.
Service-oriented computing is an umbrella term that represents a new generation distri...
Information technology (IT) policy compliance is more important than ever as the vast majority of business and government today is done with IT. Businesses use e-commerce sites to take orders from customers online, and brick-and-mortar businesses use software for back-office accounting...
The internationally acclaimed book "SOA Design Patterns" (Erl et al., ISBN: 0136135161, Prentice Hall, 2009) documents a catalog of 85 patterns and is the latest title in the “Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl” (www.soabooks.com). Thomas Erl, the world’s t...
The specification phase helps design the details of the three first-class constructs of SOA: services, service components, and flows. It uses a combination of three high-level activities to determine which services to expose, provides a detailed specification for the exposed services, ...
Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) is a modeling and design technique developed by IBM that provides prescriptive steps for how to enable target business processes by defining and developing a service-based IT solution. SOMA provides the communication link between the bu...
When the programming model shifted from the traditional procedural model to that of object-orientation, a major paradigm shift occurred in the world of IT development. The focus was on encapsulating the state and behavior of entities and calling that encapsulation a class. Instances of...
Understanding what not to do is just as important as understanding what to do. Understand the value of SOA. SOA is about flexible business processes. It's not just doing the same thing you've done before in a different way. Although you should absolutely approach SOA incrementally, the...
Here we're going to show a FastSOA mid-tier service and data caching architecture applied in three real-world scenarios. The scenarios show how to accelerate SOA performance and mitigate performance problems through mid-tier service caching, native XML persistence, and mid-tier data tr...
